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Assuming The GOP Takes The Senate, How Will Obama Finish Out...
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:39 am
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:39 am
his presidency? Will he "triangulate" like Bill Clinton and finish on a high note? Will he attempt to use executive orders to handle issues that he has yet to address, like amnesty, or is this just a bluff?
People remember their last impression of you more than any other? Will he attempt to use these last two years in office to leave with a better impression amongst US citizens than he has currently, or will he double down and attempt to appease the far left component of his base?
People remember their last impression of you more than any other? Will he attempt to use these last two years in office to leave with a better impression amongst US citizens than he has currently, or will he double down and attempt to appease the far left component of his base?
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Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:43 am to DeltaDoc
Scorched Earth...
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:43 am to DeltaDoc
The newly named GOP Senate majority leader will start calling the bills to vote that have been piling up on Reid's desk since 2010.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:43 am to DeltaDoc
quote:I think this is most likely. Obamacare won't be repealed, which he still sees as his biggest and signature accomplishment. He'll want to leave with his poll numbers high and with a legacy people are at least comfortable with. As with most presidents, if he leaves with decent approval numbers, in 10-12 years he'll be looked back on as a decent president.
Will he "triangulate" like Bill Clinton and finish on a high note?
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:44 am to DeltaDoc
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Will he attempt to use executive orders to handle issues that he has yet to address, like amnesty
He will burn it to the ground, like the petulant, vindictive piece of shite that he is.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:46 am to udtiger
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He will burn it to the ground, like the petulant, vindictive piece of shite that he is.
..and steal and destroy shite in the WH on his way out like Clinton did in 2000.
This post was edited on 10/31/14 at 8:46 am
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:49 am to udtiger
quote:I'd argue with you, but literally anything he does the rest of the way will look like "burning it to the ground" to you.
He will burn it to the ground, like the petulant, vindictive piece of shite that he is.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:50 am to FAF
For some reason, I think he will tack to the center and finish on a high note. I think he values his legacy too much to go out with a low 30s approval rating.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:51 am to FT
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I think this is most likely.
Not me. He goes down kicking and screaming with the same rhetoric that he has used for the last six years. If he doesn't go down kicking and screaming, then it just shows me the hypocrisy of his tenure. If he can work with the Reps for two years then he could have done it somewhere else during his terms. His true colors towards republicans were shown during the formation and passage of the ACA.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:51 am to DeltaDoc
He will bludgeon the crap out of the republicans on Capitol Hill and the media will magnify it. He will take credit for the good and blame the bad on the republicans.
It might be better to avoid a takeover of the Senate in order for anti-democrat sentiment to continue to crescendo into 2016.
It might be better to avoid a takeover of the Senate in order for anti-democrat sentiment to continue to crescendo into 2016.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:52 am to DeltaDoc
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For some reason, I think he will tack to the center and finish on a high note. I think he values his legacy too much to go out with a low 30s approval rating.
This.
I think immigration reform would happen, and that will be his signature end.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:52 am to Homesick Tiger
quote:All he's done for most of his presidency is compromise.
If he doesn't go down kicking and screaming, then it just shows me the hypocrisy of his tenure. If he can work with the Reps for two years then he could have done it somewhere else during his terms.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:53 am to DeltaDoc
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Will he "triangulate" like Bill Clinton and finish on a high note?
Nope. He will double down and veto anything passed by the house and senate.
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Will he attempt to use executive orders to handle issues that he has yet to address, like amnesty, or is this just a bluff?
He will attempt to but I suspect he will get bitch slapped by the courts like he has several times in the past, but he won't care.
quote:
Will he attempt to use these last two years in office to leave with a better impression amongst US citizens than he has currently,
no
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e double down and attempt to appease the far left component of his base?
He will double down on the lib rheotic. Almost 6 years of evidence tells me the he is unable to work with the republicans.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:53 am to DeltaDoc
It will start as a dumpster fire as the Senate Republicans will quickly bring to the floor all the bills that have passed the House that they know have no chance of getting Obama's signature. This will be done in an effort to paint him a President unwilling to compromise.
Eventually cooler heads will prevail and he will work with the Senate and House to attempt to finish on a high note, but most of the items he signs will be of little consequence.
Eventually cooler heads will prevail and he will work with the Senate and House to attempt to finish on a high note, but most of the items he signs will be of little consequence.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:53 am to DeltaDoc
If the congress would grow a pair......IMPEACHED .... 
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:55 am to FT
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I'd argue with you, but literally anything he does the rest of the way will look like "burning it to the ground" to you.
Please...point to any instance in the last 6 years when his conduct towards the GOP (or conservatives) would support a contrary view.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 8:56 am to FT
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All he's done for most of his presidency is compromise.
By constantly criticizing republicans at every stop and speech over the last six years? Come on. He despises the republicans. All the bills sitting on Reid's desk is just as much Obama's fault as Reid's.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 9:00 am to DeltaDoc
The GOP will have monthly televised press conferences listing the jobs bills, not union only jobs bills, real jobs bills, they are sending to the president's desk to never be signed. I think even the media will have to report that the president isn't getting gov't out of the way so employers can be free to get the ball rolling again.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 9:01 am to DeltaDoc
Same thing he has been doing. Stay in the center, pissing of both polarized parts of both parties and compromise.
Posted on 10/31/14 at 9:02 am to Homesick Tiger
quote:Rhetoric for his base and party is different from actual action.
By constantly criticizing republicans at every stop and speech over the last six years? Come on.
quote:Almost as much as they despise him.
He despises the republicans.
quote:The President certainly isn't going to push him to get votes on those bills, but I doubt he's telling him to hold them, either.
All the bills sitting on Reid's desk is just as much Obama's fault as Reid's.
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